My main man Loni.

Well to honest i cant remember a specific teacher that i really that had an outstanding affect on me or any one more then another. So I'm just going to say a couple of words about the janitor at my grade school. i should prob start by saying that all of my siblings and i went to the same grade school and in all of that time the school had the same janitor. His name was loni. There was something different about loni and the funny thing was that all of us kids realized it. loni never did anything special or really anything that was out of the ordinary for a janitor. He was always busy cleaning or taking out the trash. Even though he was just a janitor he was always smiling, there wasn't ever a time that i saw him that he dint have a smile on his face. I saw him around school every day and i would always say hi to him as i passed by he in turn would say " hey hows it goin my man". Like i said it wasn't anything special but he mad you feel good even if it was just for a second.

To be completely honest i dont ever use hyphens in my writing. The number one reason for that is, i havent found a good reason for them. As i looked around i found a couple good rules of thumb.
1. Use a hyphen to join two or more words serving as a single adjective before a noun:

a one-way street
chocolate-covered peanuts
well-known author

However, when compound modifiers come after a noun, they are not hyphenated:

The peanuts were chocolate covered.
The author was well known.

2. Use a hyphen with compound numbers:

forty-six
sixty-three
Our much-loved teacher was sixty-three years old.

3. Use a hyphen to avoid confusion or an awkward combination of letters:

re-sign a petition (vs. resign from a job)
semi-independent (but semiconscious)
shell-like (but childlike)

4. Use a hyphen with the prefixes ex- (meaning former), self-, all-; with the suffix -elect; between a prefix and a capitalized word; and with figures or letters:

ex-husband
self-assured
mid-September
all-inclusive
mayor-elect
anti-American
T-shirt
pre-Civil War
mid-1980s

5. Use a hyphen to divide words at the end of a line if necessary, and make the break only between syllables:

pref-er-ence
sell-ing
in-di-vid-u-al-ist

For line breaks, divide already hyphenated words only at the hyphen:

mass-produced
self-conscious

For line breaks in words ending in -ing, if a single final consonant in the root word is doubled before the suffix, hyphenate between the consonants; otherwise, hyphenate at the suffix itself:

plan-ning
run-ning
driv-ing
call-ing

Never put the first or last letter of a word at the end or beginning of a line, and don't put two-letter suffixes at the beginning of a new line:

lovely (Do not separate to leave ly beginning a new line.)
eval-u-ate (Separate only on either side of the u; do not leave the initial e- at the end of a line.)

Who knew how bad it could be.

This was an essay for the books. I was told before reading this essay that i might be offended of or bugged by this essay. The truth is that Michael Moore's "Idiot Nation" was a very interesting and also somewhat humorous. I found that as i read i felt like some of his points i agreed with, and others i wasn't so sure about. One thing about Michael Moores writing is i can tell how much he believes what he is saying, its as if i was right there having a conversation with him. Even though i didn't agree with some of what he said, i saw his point and where he was coming from.

"Forty-four million Americans cannot read or write above a forth-grade level". This fact was scary. I couldn't believe that as America the strongest and most powerful country in the world a good percentage of us can hardly read. He also went on to say how much TV we watch compared to the amount of books that we read. I liked how he talked about the teachers and they way that we treat them. Either the parents blaming their child's faults in school on the teachers or the fact that teachers are one of the lower paid professions.

Another point of interest was how he talked the politicians and the large factor that they play in the realm of the school system. Michael Moore made a point that those that are so worried about the students of today are the same people that are taking more away and cutting budgets at all the schools. It seems that the politicians are a big reason that those students who are they future of this country continue to decrease in their schooling. It seems to me that school is becoming more of a business then an institution for learning.

Moving and Changing.

In the Moynihan report the author, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote how the negro communities could improve there way of life. In doing this he pointed out what he thought to be there faults saying: that part of there problems were being a "Matriarchal community" which means the women are at the head of these households. Also he talked about how disorganized they were in there as a whole. DPM went on to talk more about the different ways in which he thought that this specific community could improve. what is interesting about Daniel Moynihan is that he was the New York senator at the time that he came out with his report. The Moynihan report was a very controversial. So much so that there were many activists that set out to prove the Moynihan report false.

Among the activists was a women named Carol Stack, she took it upon herself to move into the "Flats" where she spent an extensive amount of time studying and documenting the way of life. In that time Stack learned that his specific community was not at all ran by the matriarch in fact the family was ran by both parents and also there was a lot of discussion between all of the community. Another lie that Stack discounted was that the negro family was disorganized. The truth was that they were a very organized people. There was a system that they used called the "Swapping". As a community they would rely on each other for different necessities, if one family wasn't able to provide what they needed another family would help and so on. I personally believe that this process of "swapping" is one that we all can learn and live from.

As i mentioned before at the time that the Moynihan report cam out the author Daniel Moynihan was the senator of New York. Given Moynihan's authoritative figure his opinion was was heard and the report became very influential among many. Even though this was obviously a lie and only an opinion the general public took it for truth and did not take any action to form there own opinion or thoughts.

Sorry.

Sorry about the last post i was having some difficulties with my computer. hopefully you can decipher what is being said.

Look at me! How to use the exclamation mark.

Personally i used them without thinking just adding them in where i think they might be helpful to make my point, but as i read the rules about the exclamation mark i realized that they can be over -powering at times. Here are some rules that might help you along the path of exclamation marks.

The exclamation mark (!), known informally as a bang or a shriek, is used at the end of a sentence or a short phrase which expresses very strong feeling. Here are some examples:
That's fantastic!
Johnny, don't touch that!
Help!
Good heavens!

Examples like these are quite normal in those kinds of writing that try to represent ordinary speech ‹ for example, in novels. But exclamation marks are usually out of place in formal writing. Using them frequently will give your work a breathless, almost childish, quality.
An exclamation mark is also usual after an exclamation beginning with what or how:
What fools people can be!
How well Marshall bowled yesterday! Note that such sentences are exclamations, and not statements. Compare them with statements:
People can be such fools.
Marshall bowled very well yesterday. You can also use an exclamation mark to show that a statement is very surprising:
After months of careful work, the scientists finally opened the tomb. It was empty! It is also permissible to use an exclamation mark to draw attention to an interruption:

Do not use exclamation marks in formal writing!
*In 1848, gold was discovered in California! Don't use an exclamation mark unless you're certain it's necessary ,and never use two or three of them in a row.

A little summary of exclamation marks:
Don't use an exclamation mark unless it's absolutely necessary.
Use an exclamation mark after an exclamation, especially after one beginning with what orhow.
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Agree or Disagree?

In this political cartoon the artist Jerry Holbert is depicting two late presidents George Bush and George W. Bush who are father and son which is important to note. In this cartoon i see some interesting points. I see the newspaper which is stating an economic crisis, and is also saying that kids are moving back with there parents because of that struggle.

The cartoonist is showing his disapproval of the of the president George W. I am seeing that he was not happy with some or all of the decisions that the president made with regards to the economic trials. He is definitely making fun of the president by showing George W at his dads house with briefcase in hand ready to move back in. Although he is making fun of there situation, it is definitely a real problem America is having today.